With my 4 children it’s hard to have a quiet house. If you have at least two kids am sure you can feel my vibe of “no dull moment” at home.

On this faithful day, I was home with my last baby, who was barely two months old as at then.

With the stress of waking almost all night, trying to breastfeed the baby, I decided to take a nap.

My nap was short. A car was parked right beside my window, noticing the lights of the car on, made me jump up from my bed.

I looked through the windows but I couldn’t see clearly.

I raced for my clothes, had them on immediately and ran to the door.

Unbelievable, I saw my neighbour’s 6 – year old son trying to move one of the father’s cars.

There were other children playing around and praising him for being brave and courageous, among them was his 10-year old brother.

I hurriedly rush for the door and put off the ignition.

I was furious with different thoughts running through my head.

What if he hit the other children? What if he hit the other cars parked in the compound? What if he turned towards the building and hit my room directly?

With all these “what if” questions, I found a cane and made sure I gave him 5 strokes of the cane.

I felt I had done something worthy of praise but I was suprised when my neighbour ( the boy’s mother) knocked at my door about 18.00.

I rushed to narrate the whole episode to her and she said ” I am not interested in your story, keep it to yourself. I have come to warn you , don’t ever touch my children again, never again in your life”.

I was in shock.

If you were faced with such a scenario, how would you handle it?

From my own perspective I felt I did something right but she caused a lot of uproar that even my husband told me never to go near her kids again. To save everyone some stress.

Do you think I did something wrong? If you were faced with such challenge, how would you face it? Do you feel my neighbour is right and that’s the best way to raise kids?

I am still dumb founded as I cannot place how else I should have reacted to such an incidence.

What if the story was the other way round? If you were the neighbour whose son was reprimanded for doing something wrong, how would you react?

Never touch a neighbour’s child no matter the situation, don’t ever raise a finger.

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